Her tastes lie in
the direction of music; she is a splendid pianist, and her highly trained
voice would have made a fortune. She confesses to strong sexual feelings
and does not understand why intercourse never affords what she knows she
wants. But the hearing of beautiful music, or at times the excitement of
her own singing, will sometimes cause intense orgasm.
Vaschide and Vurpas, who emphasize the sexually stimulating
effects of music, only bring forward one case in any detail, and
it is doubtless significant that this case is a woman. "While
listening to a piece of music X changes expression, her eyes
become bright, the features are accentuated, a smile begins to
form, an expression of pleasure appears, the body becomes more
erect, there is a general muscular hypertonicity. X tells us that
as she listens to the music she experiences sensations very like
those of normal intercourse. The difference chiefly concerns the
local genital apparatus, for there is no flow of vaginal mucus.
On the psychic side the resemblance is marked." (Vaschide and
Vurpas, "Du Coefficient Sexual de l'Impulsion Musicale,"
_Archives de Neurologie_, May, 1904.
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